to feel annoyance when my childless colleagues keep saying how tired they are?

[sandyballs]

They don't know the meaning of the word

This topic is as relevant as it’s ever been. It’s not a request for immediately applicable advice. It’s - as you say - about thoughts and opinions. And they’re still valid.

We’ll have to agree to disagree. Maybe we should start a thread about it. And if we do, I’ll make a mental note to reanimate it in fifteen years or so.

Well aren't you a charmer op. People don't have to have kids to be tired, there are lots of reasons why someone is tired and not all self inflicted.
You sound very immature.

Argh, didn't realise it was a zombie thread.

I am so glad that I did my usual read the first page, gasp, then skip to the last page for the backlash, because I would have to apologize for my very angry response.

Zombies are a good way to observe changing attitudes.

Erm, it was in active and I didn’t resurrect it

Yes, we will have to agree to disagree.

Start a thread? Dear me, are you the troll that bumped the thread 😁

There are different types of tired. I used have severe anaemia and work full time. Now I have kids and work part time. I was so stressed before, and head tired. Post kids I get more physically tired, but so much less stressed.

Necromancy at its finest but the same ignorance passes through the ages.

The good old Oppression Olympics. The monopoly on tiredness. BINGO.

And to think a few days ago that someone set up a AIBU regarding childless women...

Me too.

…we don’t need a thread. I started a thread about the reanimation old threads in late spring 2013. I’ll reanimate it.

I'd lay off the 🍷if I were you

my daughter didn't sleep for a year , absolute horrendous but the tiredest I have even been was when my father was terminally ill. It's not a competition but at least you know that happy times are coming.

Wow. I can't believe this thread. So much nastiness in one place. Please hang a board around your neck that says "please don't talk to me because I'm utterly devoid of empathy and compassion (and not that great at thinking either".

Of course people without kids can be tired. How the hell do you know what's going on in their lives? Maybe they care for someone else. Maybe they have suffer from terrible insomnia..maybe they are ill. Who knows. Who the fuck are you to judge?

And isn't having children self inflicted? I'm sure it's more self inflicted than insomnia or an illness.

(And I say that as someone who's not had an uninterrupted night for five years because of the kids. I'd never ever think no one else has the right to say they are tired because I'm not a piece of shit.).